CHANGING DYNAMICS OF INDIAN FORIEGN POLICY As the 7th largest landmass, the world's 2nd most populous country and the world's most populous democracy with diaspora of 6 million people dispersed globally, INDIA is one of the fastest growing economies of the world. With the world's fifth largest military expenditures (SIPRI military expenditure report-2017) and 3rd largest economy by purchasing power parity (PPP); the country is a regional power and a potential global power. It is India’s growing international influence that increasingly gives it a more prominent voice in global affairs. Foreign policy of any country is a result of mutual interaction of several elements. POST INDEPENDENCE POLICY _NEHRUVIAN ERA:_ With the termination of World War 2, the European and the Japanese economies being adversely shattered; the world saw emergence of two blocs’ i.e. USSR (Russia being the leader) and USA (forming NATO) and thus started the cold war era. India along wit...